Razor.



No. 640,209. Patented Jan. 2, I900.

J. E. LERESGHE.

B A Z 0 B (Application filed June 27, 1899.)

(No Model.)

Mrs STATES JULES EMILE LERESCHE, OF ST. JULlEN-DU-SAULT, FRANCE.

RAZOR.

snemmmon forming part of Letters Patent No. 640,209, dated January 2,1906.

Application filed June 27,1899. Serial No. 722,100. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ULES EMILE LERESCHE, manufacturer, a citizen ofthe Republic of France, and a resident of St. J ulien-du-Sault, France,have invented new and useful Improvements in Razors with RemovableBlades, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to razors having removable blades.

According to my invention I secure the blade into the groove of theblade-carrier by means of a lever mounted upon the bladecarrier and thehead of which is so arranged as to act in the manner of a cam oreccentric. This head,together with the blade-carrier and the back of theblade, is so formed that by depressing the lever for fixing the bladethe said lever exercises two actions simultaneously upon the blade viz.on the one hand it draws the blade into the groove and retains it thereand on the. other hand it pushes it longitudinally, so causing it topress strongly against the abutment formed for this purpose in thecarrier at a suitable part. Thus the blade is retained in and securelyfixed to the blade-carrier at two independent points viz., at the headof the lever and at the abutment of the carrier. By lifting up the leverthe head thereof presses against the back of the blade and in thismanner forces the same out of the groove in the carrier, whereby theremoving of the blade is facilitated in case it sticks or is otherwiseretained in the groove say by rust, or through the deformation of theparts, or from any cause whatever.

My invention will be readily understood from the accompanying drawings,in whichshowing another modification.

The same letters of reference designate the same parts in all thefigures.

a designates the blade-carrier, and b the removable blade, the back ofwhich is engaged in the groove 0 of the blade-carrier.

dis the lever, which is mounted in a recess 6, formed for its receptionin the back of the blade-carrier. and constituting the working part ofthe lever. I

In Figs. 1 and 2 I have shown the blade provided with a kind of beak gat its rear f is the head, forming a camend designed to engage and tohook into the ed upon by the rear short arm f of the lock- 7 ing-lever dto hold the blade firmly on its seat or abutment k, as shown in Fig. 2.

In order to fix the blade in position,it suffices to place it as shownat Fig. 1 and then to de press the lever, as indicated by the arrow 1,when the head of the said lever acts on the portion i, and therebypushes the blade in the direction indicated by the arrow 2, thus causingthe beak g to be firmly secured in the abutment h. As the recesst' iscurved toward the front end of the blade, the latteris at the same timecaused, by the action of the lever-head f, to

turn on the point g, as is indicated by the arrow 3, and thereby movedfully into the groove 0, as shown at Fig. 2, in which position it issecurely retained owing to being engaged and strongly pressed at e bythe head f, and also-at g in the abutment h. For detaching the blade I)it suffices to move the lever 01 from the position Fig. 2 into theposition Fig. 1. Toward the end of this movement the head f of the leverproduces a strong pressure upon the part j of the recess t'j, and Y andleft portions of the blade-carrier. The groove e may, however, beextended to the extremity of the blade-carrier, when the portion 'm maybe replaced by a screw or pivot, forming a distance-piece. Again, thelever 01 may extend to the end of the blade-carrier, as shown in Figs. 3and 4. In this case it is preferable to form the end of the leversomewhat like a button 02, bent without protruding beyond the right andleft hand sides of the blade-carrier.

I would remark that the fixing of the blade I) by means of the head f ofa lever d, which draws it into the groove of the blade-carrier andforces it into an abutment in the bladecarrier, forms the main featureof my invention. The form and disposition of the said abutment are,however, of secondary importance. Thus it is not necessary for theabutment to be designed to retain the blade by hooking together, becausethe blade is drawn into and retained in the groove of the bladecarrierby the lever, so that as a matter of fact the beak 9 may be omitted, asshown in Fig. 3.

As to the disposition of the abutment, this may be varied to a largeextent. Thus the abutment may be formed as shown at Ya, forming the endof the groove e, the shape being somewhat similar to that shown in Figs.1 and 2, so that the part1 of the blade is pressed into it by depressingthe lever 61.

The lever may be inverted-that is to say, it may be disposed-so as tomove down toward the razor-handle instead of turning toward the frontend of the blade. It then acts to force the blade against an abutmentarranged at a point of the blade-carrier between the lever and the endof the bladefor example, near the front end of the bladecarrier. Fig. 5shows a convenient arrangement of this kind, in which the abutment isformed by a pin h, which passes across the groove in the blade-carrierand with which the blade engages by the side q of a recess r.

I claim- A razor comprising a blade-carrier grooved to receive theblade, a locking-lever pivotally connected with said carrierand providedwith a cam-head, an abutment on the carrier, and a removable bladeprovided with a projection on its back having a cam-face engaged by thecam-head of the aforesaid locking-lever, and a seat-face engaging theabutment on the carrier, the cam-head of said lever acting to draw theblade into the carrier-groove and force the seat-faceof said bladeagainst and hold it to said abutment, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname, in presence of two witnesses, this 31st day of May,- 1899.

JULES EMILE LERESOHE.

\Vitnesses:

J. ALLISON BOWEN, ALCIDE FABE.

